Wednesday, April 2, 2025

More info on how to prepare for fall registration in Vergil

 

Barnard College

Dear Students,

 

We are roughly two weeks away from the start of registration for fall classes.

 

I hope you were able to successfully try out the Vergil Course Search and Planner after reading my email last week. 

 

This week, to prepare yourself for registering for fall classes in the new Vergil registration system, you can do the following things:

  Log into Vergil.
  Complete the Financial Responsibility Statement. Important: You will not be able to register for fall classes until this is completed.
  View your Registration Appointments for the fall. Be sure the Term in the upper-right is set to Fall 2025.  
  Rising seniors register on Tuesday April 15, rising juniors on Wednesday April 16, rising sophomores on Thursday April 17.
  If you think your registration appointment in Vergil is incorrect, please contact us immediately at registrar@barnard.edu.
  Use the Vergil Course Search to Add classes to your Planner.
  TIP: Be sure to change the Term to Fall 2025 in the upper right corner.
  Search by subject, by department, by Foundations/Gen Ed requirement, by classes with open seats, etc. See screenshots here.
  Schedule a meeting with your academic adviser.

 

You can find more information about how to register in Vergil here.

 

If you have questions about Vergil or registration more generally, please contact my office at registrar@barnard.edu so that we can assist you.

 

If you have questions about the Financial Responsibility Statement or payment arrangements more generally, please contact the Bursar’s Office at bursar@barnard.edu.

 

Best wishes,

Jennifer Simmons

Registrar

 

Office of the Registrar, Barnard College

3009 Broadway, New York, NY

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Not graduating this May? Don't forget to meet with your adviser and register for classes April 15 for senior priority

If you're not graduating this May and plan to take fall 2025 classes, be sure to meet with your adviser for advising, so that you will be prepared to sign up for fall 2025 classes during your appointment timeslot the week of April 15-21 (seniors register Tuesday, April 15).  

Reminder that registration will take place entirely in Vergil

Your assigned registration time will appear closer to registration week if it’s not there yet. 

Additional reminder about the credit cap: You may not advance-register for more than 19 credits. Once the semester begins, you may ask your adviser for permission for up to 23 credits if there are extremely extenuating circumstances that make this necessary

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Vergil registration resources

Not graduating this May or October?  Reminder that registration for the fall semester will take place on Vergil! Your academic record (transcript and degree audit) will still be in Student Planning, but now's a good time to get familiar with Vergil, so you can register with confidence and efficiency when rising-senior registration opens on Tuesday, April 15.

This Columbia website has some really helpful information and screenshots for all your registration needs:

 https://sishelp.sis.columbia.edu/vergil_student_registration

 

 

Accessibility Week 2025


Barnard College

Dear Barnard Students, Faculty, and Staff, 

 

The Office of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI), Center for Accessibility Resources & Disability Services (CARDS), and the Disability Employee Resource Group are excited to invite all Barnard community members to the fifth annual Accessibility Week, which will take place from April 7-11, 2025. Accessibility Week offers community-wide programming focused on disability inclusion and social justice.

 

Special thanks to our partners: CEP, IMATS, and Health & Wellness

 

RSVP for ALL events here.

 

Please check out our Disability and Access website for more resources, including an intro guide on Digital Accessibility by Elana Altman (IMATS). 

 

If you have any questions, please email dei@barnard.edu

 

Warmly,

Office of DEI

Center for Accessibility Resources & Disability Services

 

Events line-up: 

 

CARDS Student Social/Field Day

Monday, April 7 | 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. | Sulzberger Tower North

Have a Field Day with CARDS! Students are invited to our 3rd Field Day event - we’ll have tie-dye, crafts/coloring, pizza, and bingo with prizes. We’ll also have a raffle for gift cards and CARDS Peer Mentors/Mentees can pick up their sweatshirts! Join us as we celebrate disabled joy together! If you have any questions please reach out to cards@barnard.edu

 

An Intro to Digital Accessibility - A Workshop for Faculty and Staff  

Tuesday, April 8 | 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Milstein 516

Learn about digital accessibility and how to design accessible content.

Sponsored by the Barnard Computational Science Center and Presented by Anisa Bora


Disability (Research) Salon

Tuesday, April 8 | 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. | James Room, Barnard Hall 4th Floor

Join us for the Disability (Research) Salon during Accessibility Week, the week of April 7th! Students will have the opportunity to present research or theses related to disability studies or lived experiences with disability/chronic illness and then engage in discussion with the community. Opening remarks and facilitation will be provided by Prof Mara Green, Anthropology and instructor of the Disability course taught in the Fall 2023 & 2024 Semesters. Refreshments will be provided.

 

Tabling for How to Register with CARDS For Students By Students 

Wednesday, April 9 | 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Diana First Floor

 

Disability Zine Event

Wednesday, April 9 | 1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | Zine Library

Sponsored by the Barnard Libraries and Presented by Jenna Freedman

 

Disability Employee Resource Group and Staff/Faculty Mixer

Thursday, April 10 | 11:30  a.m. - 2 p.m. | Judith Shapiro Faculty Room, Diana 2nd Floor

Are you interested in learning more about the Disability ERG? This event is for staff and faculty who identify as part of the disability community to connect and mingle with the Barnard Disability Employee Resource Group (ERG) members.

Please come out to meet new people and celebrate Accessibility Week!

Lunch will be provided.

 

Film screening of "As You Are" and talkback with Director Daisy Friedman

Thursday, April 10 | 6 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. | Milstein LL001

Check out the short film “As You Are”, which delves into themes of desirability, intimacy, and the unique experiences of disabled individuals. Join in a talkback from the writer and Director, Daisy Friedman, BC’25. 

Refreshments will be provided.

 

RSVP for ALL events here.

 

We’d also like to highlight programming from the Center for Engaged Pedagogy:

 

The Crip Shelves Reading Group, a student-led initiative supported by the Center for Engaged Pedagogy (CEP). 

 

A new monthly Crip Shelves Reading Group! Students, faculty, and staff will meet to discuss readings concerning critical disability studies, especially those which emphasize care work and engaged pedagogy. This month's reading is Making Sense: Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal by our very own Barnard linguistic anthropologist, E. Mara Green! You are invited to join the conversation regardless of your background with disability studies! Register here.

*A physical copy of the reading is available in the CEP lending library along with a digital copy through CLIO*

 

CEP is thrilled to announce our Bold 2025 Conference (April 3-4) lineup! Bold is not just any pedagogy conference; it’s a rare space for the whole Barnard community–students, faculty, and staff–to come together to consider the urgent questions impacting our teaching and learning culture. This year, we went back to our roots to emphasize student-designed sessions–like our Centering Disabled Voices panel discussion and our Prioritizing Student Learning, Centering Community Needs community conversation, both of which were pitched and designed by Barnard students and members of the CEP Student Advisory Committee. 

 

Centering Disabled Voices: Faculty and Students in Conversation

 Friday, April 4 | 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.

Check out the full line-up and register for all conference sessions here (https://bit.ly/bold2025reg).

 

A plug from Barnard Alum, Julia Betancourt ’21: Barnard Accessibility Week is partnering with the ReelAbilities Film Festival to allow Columbia community members to attend, for free, a screening of ReelShorts: Dream Big on April 5, 2025, at 1 p.m. This screening will include a selection of short films and a talk-back with the filmmakers and will end at approximately 2:45 pm. Free tickets are first come first serve, and community members can reserve their free tickets at this link.

Barnard College

3009 Broadway, NY, New York

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